Measurement report: Increasing trend of atmospheric ion concentrations in the boreal forest

Sulo, Juha; Lampilahti, Janne; Chen, Xuemeng; Kontkanen, Jenni; Nieminen, Tuomo; Kerminen, Veli-Matti; Petäjä, Tuukka; Kulmala, Markku; Lehtipalo, Katrianne

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15223-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15223-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15223-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 23

Measurement report

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30 Nov 2022

Measurement report |

| 30 Nov 2022

Measurement report: Increasing trend of atmospheric ion concentrations in the boreal forest

Juha Sulo, Janne Lampilahti, Xuemeng Chen, Jenni Kontkanen, Tuomo Nieminen, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Tuukka Petäjä, Markku Kulmala, and Katrianne Lehtipalo

Data sets

Dataset from measurement report: Increasing trend of atmospheric ion concentrations in the boreal forest Sulo, Juha; Lampilahti, Janne; Chen, Xuemeng; Kontkanen, Jenni; Nieminen, Tuomo; Kerminen, Veli-Matti; Petäjä, Tuukka; Kulmala, Markku; Lehtipalo, Katrianne https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6597201

smartSMEAR data Heikki Junninen, Antti Lauri, Petri Ilkka Rinaldo Keronen, Pasi Aalto, V Hiltunen, Pertti Hari, Markku Kulmala http://avaa.tdata.fi/web/smart/

Short summary

We measured atmospheric ion concentrations continuously in a boreal forest between 2005 and 2021 and observed an increasing interannual trend. The increase in cluster ion concentrations can be largely explained by an overall decreasing level of anthropogenic aerosols in the boreal forest. This suggests that the role of ions in atmospheric new particle formation may be more important in the future.